Originally Posted by
Sink r8
I'm not sure if the missions are near-identical. They also fly much longer legs than the 88/90 could ever fly. So maybe a mix of 88, 737, A320, and 757 missions. Maybe that mix gets them much higher utilization rates per airplane?
Don't forget they have a little less than a 1/3rd of their fleet are B733s and 735s. Yeah they've got longer legs with a 737/738 but not everything the 90 does is ATL-BHM-ATL-GSO... ironically like our 738s seem to be doing? I've seen some 73 trips lately that'd make a 88 guy cringe.
Right now when you look at our fleet the 88 is around 4.9 crews going lower and the 320 sits around 5.6 and they're talking about displacing people on this next bid. So my bet is that both come down on this next AE which is below the SWA staffing but of course how much of that 6400 number is flying the line?
The 73N and 9 are higher around 7-7.5 but that's also because they're
growth categories with more 739s coming and the 9 staffed for issues related to the 717 arriving. The 9 in particular is stated to be overstaffed on purpose, i.e. 7+ crews per jet is over staffing.
I'm not going to touch the ER/767 because of its mission profile but on the 330/777/765/744 we're running about 27 pilots per plane. But the one thing I need to go back and check is that from last August we ran 38 pilots on the 777, now we only run 31? That's over 125 guys removed from that thing. Scambo? Where art thou oh Scambo?